Chapter 9, The Last Tower of the Continent

Now that his speech as a living god was to be announced, Kousuke decided to leave the Amamiya Tower for a while.

He had been pondering on what to do about the other two remaining Towers, but for now, he had decided to use them as a reason to leave.

[If we could quickly conquer the remaining Towers, we wouldn’t have to worry about them.]

It was easier to conquer the remaining Towers than managing them, since their potential and future uses were uncertain.

However, the more Towers Kousuke conquers, the more work he would have to do to manage them.

The remaining two Towers, the northwest and southwest Towers, are, in Kousuke’s guess, the same size as the northeast and southeast Towers.

For the time being, they had decided to attack the northwest Tower first, and the outcome was just as they had expected.

Each floor consists of many grassy plains.

In addition, there were many flying monsters.

“I wonder if this is meant to be a Wind themed Tower…”

That was Kousuke’s feeling, and Kouhi and Mitsuki, who were listening to his words, also nodded in agreement.

It became easier to predict what the remaining Southwest Tower would be themed after, but since they were currently attacking the Northwest Tower, they decided to stop thinking about the other Tower.

The capture of the Northwest Tower went smoothly, and the size of the floors turned out to be the same as the Northeast and Southeast Towers, as expected.

The only thing that was left to be considered was the number of floors, but they couldn’t be sure of that until they had conquered it.

After the 25th floor, they saw a few high-level monsters popping up, so they had some idea of what to expect.

No matter how good Kouhi and Mitsuki were, they could not let their guard down when high-level monsters started to appear.

They steeled themselves and proceeded to the next floor.

As it turned out, their expectations that the Northwest Tower would be the same size as the Northeast and Southeast Towers was correct.

The floors were the same size, and the 30th floor was the highest floor of the Tower.

After quickly concluding the capture, they went to the control floor to complete the registration process as usual.

As expected, this was the 6th time they had done this, so they were already used to it.

It seemed like it was a waste of time to wait around for the control panel to finish its registration process, but there was nothing they could do about it.

They had no choice but to wait quietly.

After finishing the work at the management level, Kousuke briefly checked the summoning menu.

As expected, there was no equipment that could produce Divine Power.

After confirming this, they returned to Amamiya’s Tower.

Kousuke wanted to see what would happen if he took the Divine Stone that he had placed in Amamiya’s Tower to a different Tower.

[Peach and Silvia may have already tried this, but since I had just thought of it, I should try it out.]

The outcome was disappointing.

Although it was listed in the Tower as a ‘Divine Stone’, its ability was displayed as ‘Not Opened’ and it could not be used as an item to produce Divine Power.

“… Not so easy, is it?”

“If it’s ‘Not Opened’, does that mean there are requirements for it to be opened?”

Mitsuki replied to Kousuke’s murmur.

“I wonder. We can’t be sure until we verify it.”

Kousuke reported the findings when they returned to Amamiya’s Tower.

[As expected, the other members of the team had already tried the same thing.]

[In addition, I heard that Shrein tried to replace the stone with a new one, but the result was the same.]

[If the World Tree and Vermilionia Castle are functional, but the other locations are not, then there must be a reason… I just can’t figure it out…]

[It might be the Level of the Tower or some other special condition.]

“I guess we’ll have to wait and see.”

Everyone nodded at Schrein’s comment.

Now that they have the Stones in all the Towers they’ve conquered, they were hoping that if they manage to level up the other Towers, and have more of its abilities released, they would be able to uncover the conditions.

However, Kousuke thought that it would not be that easy.

In the first place, it was only after Amamiya’s Tower met some special conditions, that items which produced divine power appeared in the menu.

While not going as far as to say it was a unique item, it wouldn’t be surprising if there were some items that were exclusive to Amamiya’s Tower.

“It might be interesting to try out some of the other Tower’s installations with you.”

“That’s true, but I’m not entirely sure we should be doing a lot of that.”

“What do you mean?”

“If the reason why each Tower has its own identity is because of these installations…”

“You mean that by taking something from another Tower, it loses its individuality?”

Continuing Kosuke’s thinking, Shrein said.

“Yes. You can’t say that there’s no point in considering such things when you’re exchanging floors.”

“No~ On the contrary, the fact that it’s been properly recognized by the Tower means that it’s within the range of the Tower’s personality, wouldn’t you say?”

A few of us paused to consider Peach’s point.

“…Well, okay. I don’t think it’s a very good idea to think about it too much. I’ll leave it up to each of you to decide what to do with your respective Towers.”

As Collette said, they could bring in a variety of items and try them out, or they could stick to the individuality of the Tower and manage with what they could access from the menu.

Kousuke didn’t want to go out of his way to decide on that policy.

Since he had already exchanged floors in Amamiya’s Tower, he was going to try various things on the exchanged floors.

But before that, he decided to conquer the last remaining Southwest Tower.

“Oh, I’m going too.”

“There’s only one Tower left. We’d better get this over with.”

Everyone nodded at Kousuke’s words.

Once they had conquered the Southwest Tower, they would have captured all the Towers in the Central Continent.

Since Kousuke had no desire to go all the way to another continent to capture the remaining Towers, this would be the end of his Tower capturing efforts.

He didn’t intend to intentionally leave behind a solitary Tower that could be attacked, so he decided to quickly set out to attack it.

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As for the Southwestern Tower, it seemed to possess the properties of Fire, there was a volcano and a topography of exposed lava.

Amamiya’s Tower did not have such a place, so it was a new experience for Kousuke.

Naturally, many of the monsters that appeared were either resistant to fire or skilled in handling fire.

It was thanks to the presence of Kouhi and Mitsuki that Kousuke could afford to take a thorough look.

He was very grateful for their help, but his observations did not lead him far from his expectations.

The scale of the Tower was the same as that of the Northeast, Southeast, and Northwest Towers, with the 30th floor being the top.

It was also the same size as those 3 Towers.

With the help of Kouhi and Mitsuki, they easily captured the Southwestern Tower, and went through the same process as usual on the control floor.

It was the same old process, with the same old hassle of waiting for it to finish.

However, Kousuke felt deeply moved when he realized that this would be his last time.

“…I never thought this would happen when I conquered Amamiya Tower…”

Kousuke mumbled casually as they waited, but Mitsuki overheard him and chuckled.

“There were only three of us at the time. I thought we were simply trying to get a base.”

“That’s what I thought too… How did it come to this…? In all honesty, it’s probably my fault.”

Kousuke rambled to himself and became somewhat depressed.

At that time, he could have never imagined that he would become a God, not even a tiny bit.

He knew that he was going out of his depth, so there he couldn’t really complain about any of it.

While they were killing time by talking about how they got here, the registration process for the Southwest Tower was finished.

As always, Kousuke was expecting to hear a finishing message, but then he heard a follow-up message from the control panel.

《 We have confirmed that you have captured all the Towers on the continent. You are now registered as the Champion of the Continent. 》